X-rays
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Resources
- Historical
- General
- Deutsches Röntgen-Museum. Remscheid.
- Historical Overview of the Discovery of the X-Ray. Joyce Calarco. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
- X-Rays. Museum of Physics. University of Queensland. Photos of antique apparatus.
- Nobel foundation
- Nobel Prize in Physics 1901. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
- Nobel Prize in Physics 1927. Arthur Compton.
- Nobel Prize in Physics 1930. Chandrasekhara Raman.
- Papers
- On a New Kind of Rays. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Nature. Vol. 53 (1896): 274–277.
- A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-Rays by Light Elements. Arthur H. Compton. Physical Review. Vol. 21 No. 5 (1923): 483–502.
- A New Type of Secondary Radiation. Raman and Krishnan. Nature. Vol. 121 (1928): 501–502.
- Double Helix: 50 years of DNA. Five classic papers from Nature that describe and provide evidence for the double helix being the structure of DNA
- Anatomy of Photo 51. Lexi Krock. NOVA (2003).
- General
- Radiography
- Nick Veasey. X-Ray Photographer.
- Exposing the invisible. TED.com (2009).
- Nick Veasey. X-Ray Photographer.
- Solar sails
- Solar Sailing. The Planetary Society.
- Union pour la Promotion de la Propulsion Photonique
- Spectroscopy
- X-Ray Fluorescence. M. Matlock, M. Issa, A. Hutchinson. University of Kentucky.
- X-Ray Periodic Table. Pathikrit Bandyopadhyay. Illinois Institute of Technology.
- Synchrotron radiation
- Advanced Light Source. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Advanced Photon Source. Argonne National Laboratory.
- Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY).
- Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices. Louisiana State University (LSU).
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor. Hamburg Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.
- Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron. Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory.
- National Synchrotron Light Source. Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME).
- Swiss Light Source. Paul Scherrer Institut.
- Synchrotron Radiation Center. University of Wisconsin Madison.
- Synchrotron Radiation Source. Daresbury Laboratory.
- Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facilty (SURF). National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
- Weird
- Correlation between nanosecond x-ray flashes and stick-slip friction in peeling tape. Carlos G. Camara1, Juan V. Escobar, Jonathan R. Hird, Seth J. Putterman. Nature. Vol. 455 (2008): 1089–1092. Turn a Scotch tape dispenser into an x-ray tube.
- Electronics: X Rays in the Living Room. Time Magazine. Vol. 90 No. 5 (1967).
- x-ray tubes
- Vacuum-Tube. William Coolidge. General Electric. US Patent 1,203,495 (1916).
- Vintage X-Ray Tubes. Kilokat's Antique Light Bulb Site.